xix, 241 pages 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236)

Underway, November 1852 -- Madeira, 12-15 December 1852 -- Shipboard discipline -- Atlantic weather and wind -- St. Helena, 10-11 January 1853 -- Mauritius, 18-28 February 1853 -- Ceylon, 10-15 March 853 -- Singapore, 25-29 March 1853 -- Hong Kong, 7 April 1853 -- Canton, April 1853 -- Macao, April 1853 -- Shanghai, 4-16 May 1853 -- Lew Chew, 26 May-9 June 1853 -- The Bonin Islands, 14-18 June 1853 -- Back to Naha, 23 June-2 July 1853 -- To Japan, 7 July 1853 -- Edo Bay, 8 July 1853 -- Preliminary encounters, 9 July 1853 -- Surveys and soundings, 9-13 July 1853 -- Kurihama reception, 14 July 1853 -- Parthian surveys, 15-16 July 1853 -- Au Revoir Edo, 17 July 1853 -- Return to Lew Chew, 25 July-1 August 1853 -- Hong Kong, August 1853 -- Canton, August 1853 -- Macao sojourn, September 1853-January 1854 -- Japan return hastened, January 1854 -- Lew Chew, 20 January-7 February 1854 -- Return to Edo Bay, 11 February 1854 -- Beginning negotiations -- Second landing in Japan, 8 March 1854 -- First American burial, 9 March 1854 -- Treaty articles considered, 17 March 1854 -- Choosing open ports -- Daily notes -- American gifts -- Japanese curiosity -- Countryside stroll, 6 April 1854 -- Treaty house -- Japanese costumes and collations -- Reception on board Powhatan, 27 March 1854 -- Entertainment ashore, 31 March 1854 -- Gifts -- Approach to Edo -- Shimoda, 18 April-13 May 1854 -- Northward bound -- Hakodate and its people, 17 May-3 June 1854 -- Official transactions -- Shimoda revisited, 7-28 June 1854 -- Southward from Shimoda

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